March 2020

Spotify Premium Duo comes to Canada, France and Japan

04/03/2020

Spotify Premium Duo comes to Canada, France and Japan following on from its initial pilot rollout in 2019 in Denmark, Ireland, Poland and Latin America. Spotify’s Premium Duo subscription plan is two Premium accounts for couples under one roof which offers the functionality to either listen together or separately. The plan in Canada costs CAD $12.99/month with a 1 month free trial and the plan can be cancelled anytime. The only restriction is that a couple must […]

Taylor Swift named Global Recording Artist of 2019

03/03/2020

Taylor Swift named Global Recording Artist of 2019 by IFPI and is the second time Swift has won the award, the first time being in 2014. Taylor Swift had another successful year releasing her seventh studio album, Lover, in August. The album debuted at number one in more than ten countries and reached three million album-equivalent sales worldwide by the end of its first week of release. Three singles were released off the Lover album […]

Discover Indian classical music with Ragya

02/03/2020

Discover Indian classical music with Ragya, a specialist streamer which is a first-of-its-kind music streaming service dedicated to Indian classical music. Ragya’s default mode makes enjoying and discovering Indian classical music simple for listeners as it curates and plays tracks based on the time of the day. This is based on the raga system in Indian classical music which is structured around the 8 time sections in the day. In addition there are curated sections […]

Local music and Bollywood are Spotify favourites in India

02/03/2020

Local music and Bollywood are Spotify favourites in India according to a recent blog posting celebrating the first 12 months since their launch. There are now more than 6,400 Indian creators using Spotify for Artists and there are listeners from over 2,300 cities tuning into more than 350 curated Indian playlists like New Music Hindi and Punjabi 101. The top three music genres streamed across India are pop, filmi (music from popular Indian movies) and […]

1 in 5 Brits listen to pirated music

01/03/2020

1 in 5 Brits listen to pirated music according to a new report from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) entitled Online Copyright Infringement Tracker. The report is the ninth in a series of reports originally commissioned by Ofcom in 2012 to ‘monitor the impact of new online platforms on infringement behaviours.’ The overall summary reported that ‘For all categories, consumption (i.e. downloading, streaming/accessing content online) remained consistent or increased since the previous wave’ with […]

French music industry grows 5.4% in 2019

01/03/2020

French music industry grows 5.4% in 2019 with streaming now making up 59% of sales according to a recent report by SNEP, the French music industry association. After 3 years of modest growth an 18.5% increase in streaming subscriptions helped the industry grow to €772 million in 2019. The number of subscriptions increased significantly (+1.7 million) and crossed the 10% mark for the first time in 2019. Helped by family subscription offers, 9.4 million French people […]